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Re: Can freight trains ever operate on track where Light Rail Operates
Author: 600VDC Mummy
Date: 10-14-2024 - 14:28
Portland has entered the chat Wrote:
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> FUD Wrote:
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> > A special case of sharing is where light rail
> > crosses an active freight track at grade. Some
> > kind of interlocking signaling is usually
> needed
> > in those cases, even if the freight track is
> > lightly used. A lot of older systems in the
> > eastern part of the US have one or more of
> those.
> > Even Sacramento had one, for a while, on its
> Green
> > line.
>
> Portland's newest light rail line has an at-grade
> crossing with an active freight railroad line, AND
> shares a ROW with a Union Pacific mainline (and
> yes, that means TriMet has to comply with certain
> FRA regulations as a result.)
>
> I'm not talking the 1986 era original Gresham line
> - this is the NEWEST route, the Orange Line to
> Milwaukie. Brand new. This isn't some kind of
> "grandfathered" thing, it happens right now.
S.F.(UP) crosses Muni, Tampa(Teco) crosses CSX and I think Fort Collins Birney once crossed a freight ROW.
Does pre-1985 UP Yakima count?
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> FUD Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > A special case of sharing is where light rail
> > crosses an active freight track at grade. Some
> > kind of interlocking signaling is usually
> needed
> > in those cases, even if the freight track is
> > lightly used. A lot of older systems in the
> > eastern part of the US have one or more of
> those.
> > Even Sacramento had one, for a while, on its
> Green
> > line.
>
> Portland's newest light rail line has an at-grade
> crossing with an active freight railroad line, AND
> shares a ROW with a Union Pacific mainline (and
> yes, that means TriMet has to comply with certain
> FRA regulations as a result.)
>
> I'm not talking the 1986 era original Gresham line
> - this is the NEWEST route, the Orange Line to
> Milwaukie. Brand new. This isn't some kind of
> "grandfathered" thing, it happens right now.
S.F.(UP) crosses Muni, Tampa(Teco) crosses CSX and I think Fort Collins Birney once crossed a freight ROW.
Does pre-1985 UP Yakima count?
